Food handlers at grocery stores, meatpacking plants, fast food restaurants, and delivery services have tested positive for COVID-19. This raises a concern that the virus is being passed on through food handling or other shoppers touching groceries during their shopping…
In Part Five, we provide historical perspective comparing COVID-19 to past influenza (and SARS) pandemics, discuss the rationale behind flattening the exponential growth curve through mitigation strategies like social/physical isolation, quarantines, shelter in place and lockdowns, and discuss the problems impeding rapid rollout of SARS-CoV-2 testing.
The COVID-19 Pandemic is upon us, likely the biggest in the 21st Century so far. Given the internet-connected world we now live in, the amount of information, misinformation, even disinformation about the virus, the disease, its rapid spread and worldwide public health responses has been growing as fast as the virus itself!
